Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to Join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter. Thanks for joining. I am in the podcast studio with the one and only recently married Parker Primrose. Emma, thanks for having me. I'm so glad you're here, Parker. It's your first time on Join the Journey. Tell us a little bit about who are you, how'd you come to know the Lord? Fast forward. What do you up to today? Yeah, I'd love to share that. Thanks for asking. So I was fortunate. I grew up in a Christian environment where an intimate relationship with the Lord was always modeled for me. But the beginning of my story,

faith was really academic. It was a set of answers that you supplied. And if you put in all the

right answers, the right things happened. So not relationship, just academic. But God used a move,

my family moved from Colorado to Texas, which for me was really confusing in the sense of I thought I was doing

this faith thing right. I thought I knew all the answers. I thought I was given the right ones,

and life didn't go the way I wanted it to. And God used that to draw my attention. Job 3615,

God saves suffering people through their suffering. It's through their suffering that he gets them to listen.

And I remember reading that scripture while I was hiding out in my room,

avoiding people being upset and just being struck by,

God wants us to listen.

Like, God is relational.

And what he wants most of all are not my answers, but my heart.

And so I think that's when I really went from my faith just being a lifestyle

to my faith being an active and moving

relationship with the Savior. And so from that, I'm really grateful for the ways that God has

continued to draw me in, helping to remind me that I'm not Superman and I'm in desperate need

of a God to be my provider all the time, whether that be in high school, struggling with sin

that I thought I could get out of

on my own, being struggling deeply with pornography, and then God using community and using

the breaking down of my pride to help me see how desperately I need help from community and from him,

and then continuing that in college. I have finite capacity, but God is infinite. And so tap into

his well and not my own.

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